Oil-can



(No Model.) P. D. WALPOLB.

OIL CAN. No. 384,802. Patented June 19, 1888.

VJ 1| I I I a ww m UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANKLIN DAVID \VALPOLE, OF MCKENZIE, TENNESSEE.

OIL-CAN.

ESPECTFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 384,802, dated June 19, 1888. Application filed April 17,1888. Serial NoIEZTQDOfi. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN DAVID WAL- POLE, a citizen of the United States, residing at McKenzie, in the county of Carroll and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and -useful Improvement in Oil-Cans, of which the described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of an oil-can embodying theinvention. Fig. 2 represents a central vertical section thereof extending the discharge-spout. Fig. 3 represents a central vertical section of a fiat-topped oil-can having certain modifications attached. Fig. 4 is a detail View of the tube and the plunger.

Referring. to the drawings by letter, A designates an oil-can of any desired construction, provided with a suitable bail, a, and having, preferably, the screw-neck a.

B is a screw-cap attached by a chain, 6, to the staple 11', secured to the can at the foot of said neck.

0 is a detachable tube running vertically down in the can through the said neck to the floor thereof, and provided with notches c in its lower end for the inflow of oil.

D is a perforated partition in the tube 0 just above said notches, and forming a valve-seat for the upwardly-opening flap-valve d, secured near oneedge to said partition.

The tube 0 has the funnel-shaped enlarge ment E secured to its upper end, from which extends outward and slightly upward the discharge-spoute, having the depending end 6" covered by a cap, e which is connected to said end by a chain, as shown. ward from the enlargement E, around the tube 0, is the screw-threaded flange F, of proper size to engage the threaded neck of the can. When so engaged, the lower end of the tube 0 rests on the bottom of the can. The enlarge- Extending downment E is covered by the screw-cap g, concave above and perforated centrally for the passage of the rod h of the plunger H, which is provided with the upwardly-opening valve h. The plunger and tube, with their attached parts, thus form a pump to remove the oil from the can, the oil flowing into the tube through the inlet'notches c. p

The concave screw -cap prevents the oil brought up by the plungcr-rod from dripping down on the top of the can, and the upward inclination of the discharge-spout prevents the oil dripping therefrom when the pumping is stopped, as what oil remains in said spout will run back into the tube 0.

The pumping apparatus may be used with oil-cans of any size and style, as the tube 0 need only be insertedin the mouth thereof.

Fig.3 shows a flat-topped can having the cap 9 soldered to the enlargement E, instead of being secured thereon. -In this modification the discharge-spout e is sufficiently short not to extend across the top of the can, and the tube 0 passes through an opening near one side of the top, so that the said spout can be turned outward with the tube 0 to fillthe lamp, and turned inward out of the way when 'not in use.

The tube 0 has in its upper portion, just below the top of the can, a. very small open i'ng, 0c, which'preventsoverflow when the dered at its upper end to theinside of the enlargement E, so that when the latter is unscrewed from the screw-neck a the tube G and the proximate parts can be detached from the can along with the enlargement. It willalso be seen that this construction of the parts per mits the application of the improvement to any style of oil-can that has a screw-neek, a. N 0 change or alteration in the construction of the can is necessary.

Having described my invention, I claim-- The combination, with the can having the screw-neck a, of the tube 0, extending downward through saidneck to the bottom of the can, and having a valve in its lower end, the the enlargement E, and the concave top, sub- [0 funnel-shaped enlargement E, secured to the stantially as specified.

upper end of the tube 0, and having the con- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my cave top and the depending annular screwown Ihave hereto afiixed my signature in presthreaded flange Eadapted to engage the screwi ence of two witnesses.

neck a,the discharge-spout extending outward FRANKLIN DAVID WALPOLE. and upward from the said enlargements E, and Witnesses: the valved plunger in the tube, having its WV. S. ALLEN,

plunger-rod extending up through the tube 0, 'I. \V. PRATT. 

